It does matter the sams year because this means it will be the first one added likely in some fashion to ground rb. Which means it is at best redundant at worse it does nothing and can only occasionally pose a threat.
The AIM-7F Sparrow missile entered service in 1976
Sa-2 was not a good SAM for medium to short range.
Doesn’t mean anything, its a universal system for multi-vehicle AA’s. It can branch out in a lot of different ways in the future.
Please incorporate this into a new permanent game mode. This sounds awesome!
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Im willing to bet you the s-75 will be the first heavy sam in ground rb for at least a update or two
Yeah its always the same with gaijn well in the future we will add heavier sams after we add one that is 70 years old and sit with that for 3-4 updates
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I agree it’s a cool idea and makes ground attack aircraft relevant having acheivable objectives
Not bomb these 5 bases and then an airfield…
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And the radars of these SA2s have surreal capabilities. For example, in the previous tests, my friend and I found that even if your plane was behind an obstacle, these radars were still pointing at you.
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Im willing to bet you here and now. We see the s-75 be the only heavy sam system in ground for 2-3 updates possible longer. That is the s-75 will be where gaijin just stops and sits on it for a couple updates.
I’m just hoping they make it radar guided and not SACLOS. Makes it hard to dodge.
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Problem is S-300/400 and Patriot missiles have so much energy and will come down directly ontop of an aircraft. It’s really not going to be much fun smacked by an Ion cannon from space
This isn’t SEAD, its DEAD (Destruction of Enemy Air Defenses). Actual SEAD would be done by things like Anti Radiation Missiles or other long range weaponry, going in close with unguided weapons is just a DEAD mission. The idea that early ARMs like Shrikes don’t always hit makes them the idea behind the Supression in SEAD, you fire a couple of them to try and hit, damage or if possible destroy launchers, radars or other SAM site infrastructure. This would put the site out of action or limit its effectiveness, which a DEAD mission can use to fully destroy it.
If they model the sites with damagable parts like radars and launchers, ARMs can be added and used to actually supress them. So please just add that instead of coming with a lame excuse.
Having this as an objective in regular air battles could be nice though, something to change things up a bit.
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Honestly after how long cas has dominated ground rb I could care less if they get smacked around in GROUND RB
I can bet you we wont. you realise the S-75 is just the missile system, Its meant to have a radar station along with it. unless gaijin plans to add this to GRB as “AI” then why even have Ito or TorM1s anymore when the S75s alone would dump all over these.
Adding more 4th gen fighers when a 1st gen heavy same wanst even in game was always going to create a lop sided meta.
I agree Gaijin have made a mess of pacing and adding things
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Well because I bet you those heavy sams will be ai sites. And I biet you cas will learn their location in ground rb pretty soon and render them all but useless as they skirt around them
Im glad new game modes are being tested, but 2 days seems uneccesarily short, esp in the middle of a week. Only conclusion I can come to is gaijin is afraid it will negatively impact que times for ARB, which if thats the case why even test new modes at all if thats always going to be an issue for you guys.
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I’m really enjoying the mode, but does anyone have good strats against the AA? I get blasted the second I near them for bombing, and notching them are really hard to do while also trying to get close to bomb.
Love the fact they’ve removed tags
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